Improvement in matches for lighting cigars



UNrr E STATES PATENT JOHN HOWE, 0E ALLEGHENY, PENNs LVAEI-IA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,626, dated J nly2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HOWE, of Allegheny City, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented and discovered a new Process for the Manufacture of Matches or Cigar and Pipe Lighters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a true and correct description of the ingredients composing and used in such manufacture, and the relative proportions of such ingredients constituting such process in their relation to each other:

Benzoin, one pound; myrrh, one pound; cascarilla bark, one pound; oil of nutmeg, one-fourth ounce; oil of cloves, one-fourth ounce; oil of musk, one-fourth ounce, or powdered musk; charcoal, two pounds; nitrate of potash, two pounds. The ingredients above The manufacture or preparation of r a com! pound for matches, denominated cigar-nor pipe lighters, composed of the within-dc? scribed ingredients and in the proportions; 1 specified, for the uses and purposes herein set 1 forth.

JOHN HOWE.

Witnesses EDWIN DAVIS, FRED. EMRIOH. 

